Giving our best so students can do their best.

To equip all students to succeed in a complex world.

Through community partnerships, the Norfolk Public Schools will be a
world-class system recognized for excellence. All students will graduate and be prepared to compete in a global market, while making a positive contribution to society.

• Accountability

• Caring

• Excellence

• Fairness

• Honesty

• Integrity

• Justice

• Loyalty

• Respectful

• Responsible

• Trust

1. Academically prepared learners who have achieved basic educational skills and can apply these to the attainment of lifelong goals.

2. Critical and creative thinkers who identify problems and/or situations, collect and analyze information to create opportunities and implement solutions for a changing and diversified world.

3. Effective communicators who interact productively with others in a variety of situations.

4. Quality producers who create and embrace ideas and products which reflect originality, high quality, and personal or social value.

5. Collaborative contributors who develop and manage inter-personal relationships to benefit self and others within the family, work, community, and global environment.

6. Responsible individuals who assume social, legal, and moral responsibility for their own actions.

7. Responsible citizens who take the initiative to contribute time, energy, and talents to improve the welfare of themselves, and to enhance the quality of life in their local and global environments.